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Zappar is a new mobile app that brings videogame characters and other 3D objects to life at in-store point of sale. The augmented reality application was launched exclusively at GAMESCOM Expo in Cologne, Germany, promoting the videogame All Zombies Must Die! in partnership with games developer and distributor – doublesix. The Zappar technology allows consumers…
After Nextag Dealforce, the popular shopping website is out with another mobile app – Nextag Radar. However, unlike their earlier mobile efforts, this app is available for iPhone only (I guess the Android version will be released shortly, too). The new application not only allows users to search and compare products, and organize their searches…
BuzzMob is the latest company to join the location-based social networking space. Their mobile app, at the moment available only for iPhone, allows users to connect with the people around them while experiencing the same social activity like concerts and sporting events. Moreover, BuzzMob also says their service is well suited for college campuses and…
We’ve been talking about Placecast‘s ShopAlerts platform for few times in the past. Now they decided to open it up, allowing retailers to integrate the geofencing technology into their apps. As a result, smart merchants will be able to provide much better experience to their customers, enabling push-based deal alerts that work even when the…
We all know that the StubHub app is a great way to buy tickets for sporting events but the company will be updating its iPhone, Android and Windows Phone apps this Thursday to include mobile ticketing. With this update, the StubHub app will be your one-stop solution for finding and buying tickets as well, as…
It wasn’t long ago that we first saw the new Android Market grace our presence and become available for download. Well, there’s a new version in town that brings a couple of new tweaks that are more than welcomed and that some people have been waiting for. Likely a highly requested feature that’s been added…
Halfbrick, who is well known for games such as Fruit Ninja, Monster Dash, and Age of Zombies, will soon be releasing their newest creation, Jetpack Joyride (previously known as Machine Gun Jetpack).The game has you once again controlling Barry Steakfries in a similar fashion as you did in Monster Dash, but this time, Barry will be…
Facebook just announced various privacy changes and many of these give users granularity over who gets to see what. What we found interesting about these changes is that the world’s largest social network is putting less emphasis on checking in and giving users the ability to add location to any update on nearly any device.…
The Swype virtual keyboard has been updated to beta 3.25 with a couple of handy new features. The most flashy of them are new gestures that are made by tracing from the Swype key in the bottom-left. Trace up to A to select everything in the current text box, trace to C to copy it,…
Mobile app ad agency Inneractive recently released an infographic detailing some data they’ve gathered after dishing out ads across multiple platforms. While some, like iPhone and Symbian, were more or less split evenly, Android app usage leaned towards male with 61%, and BlackBerry eked towards females with 59%. The infographic also dives into which app categories…